Thanksgiving Day, presently celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, has been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863. It did not become a federal holiday until 1941. Thanksgiving was historically a religious observation to give thanks to God, but is now primarily identified as a . . . . Continue Reading »
The question was raised by Jared regarding the significance of Leftist concerns (to me and to this site) and our understanding of what it means to be “evangelical”. If we accept that evangelical theology is the most orthodox, the closest to the teachings of the Word, then it . . . . Continue Reading »
Louisiana’s Angola Prison—known as “The Farm”—is the largest maximum-security prison in America. All of the prisoners are murderers, rapists, armed robbers, or habitual felons. The average sentence is 88 years, with 3,200 people in one place serving life sentences; . . . . Continue Reading »
Kristin Parker, an archivist for Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, recently shared this snippet of a letter Gardner received from novelist F. Marion Crawford on August 23, 1896: The old fashioned novel is really dead, and nothing can revive it nor make anybody care for it again. What . . . . Continue Reading »
Kudos to our geeky President for delivering this clever line while presenting his ” Educate to Innovate ” campaign, which aims to promote the development of student inventors: As President, I believe that robotics can inspire young people to pursue science and engineering. And I want to . . . . Continue Reading »
In the year 3000, music historians are still talking about the four lads from Linverton—John Lennon, Paul MacKenzie, Greg Hutchinson, and Scottie Pippen. (I sometimes wonder if our views about the other Fab Four (Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Aristotle, and Plato) aren’t similar skewed by the . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m Sick and Tired of Lewis and ChestertonTwice in the past week, I thought I’d said something relatively clever only to have someone say, “It’s funny that you say that: I was reading something that C. S. Lewis wrote about that very idea not long ago . . . .” If . . . . Continue Reading »
A myth is a story so deeply moving and true that it shapes the rest of your life. When I was in seventh grade, I found a copy of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings in the Rochester Christian School library. On the bus ride home, I started reading it and knew from the first page that my life would . . . . Continue Reading »
I loathe the tactic of hacking and publishing, whether in support of a side I am on or not. It seems to me that such Nixonian tactics—as I wrote here—destroy the comity necessary for democracy to function. (Yes, I am aware of the NYT’s hypocrisy on this matter, but what does . . . . Continue Reading »
More details are coming out about the Rom Houben case. This struck me hard. From the story:Belgian doctors who treated him early on said that Rom had gone from a coma into a vegetative condition. Coma is a state of unconsciousness in which the eyes are closed and the patient can’t . . . . Continue Reading »
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